UK Once Had Talks to Do What U of L Is Now Doing Join the ACC

On July 1, the tectonic plates beneath college sports in the commonwealth will shift when the University of Louisville joins the Atlantic Coast Conference.
It's hard to overstate how important membership in the ACC — which Tom Jurich outmaneuvered Connecticut to attain — is to U of L. Being in the ACC secures a place for Louisville in one of the "Big Five" college sports leagues — the Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC are the other four — at the exact time when there are rumblings that those conferences could separate from the rest of college athletics in some form.
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